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Old 02-14-2007, 01:56 PM
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Default QTP or Kooks? Which has the least ground clearance?

Like in the title, which set of headers sit lower to the ground? My T/A has a pro-kit on it... is there much of a difference in these 2 brands as far as clearance goes? And I will be running a catted Y.
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I say the Kooks.Althogh I havent seen the QTP's; I have the Kooks with a lowered car and the tuck very nicely. Great quality headers IMO. Never have scraped them eather
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i'm going with kooks b/c i've heard they tuck well.
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LOL at the kooks tucking nice...can't speak 4 the QTP but kooks LOL.My car has a pro kit on it and its low might be different on other car's but mine... nah just as low as my brothers Hooker's.Just my$0.02
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The QTPs tuck nice. If you go true duals you won't have to worry about the Y-pipe that hangs a little low.
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I have the QTP's and offroad y. The headers tuck nice but the y is a little low. I got eibach prokit also. I would watch it with a catted y the cats are pretty big and will hang
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only problem i got with my kooks is the y-pipe would hit the bottem of the car when u would get on it, but i got a lil bracket riged up now...
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My Kooks are tucked up nice and purty.
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Thanks for the responses fellas
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i got QTP's the headers are fine it the y-pipe that hangs loww
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The Kooks stuff sits higher than stock. Pics of mine in my sig, car lowered about 1" in rear. When my car was lowered like it was in my sig (now it's a bit higher), I had no problems, and that bitch was SLAMMED. Now it's slammed +1/4" lol.
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Go with Kooks.

I have a QTP setup and my catted Y its crap. I hit it so much that my cats are now gutted

You might also want to look into American Racing their headers are like QTPs with the merge and all and the Y pipe has compact cats.
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I have Kooks, tucked up better than the stock exhaust did.
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+1 for Kooks my headers, and catted Y fitt like a glove
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Well if ya went with QTP, go with a custom y. Get a flowmaster merge, some cats, and then have an exhaust shop fab up some pipes for ya and get that thing tucked tight! Thats what Im doing.
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Originally Posted by EvilBLK02TA
Well if ya went with QTP, go with a custom y. Get a flowmaster merge, some cats, and then have an exhaust shop fab up some pipes for ya and get that thing tucked tight! Thats what Im doing.
that's what i wish i had done !
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Thanks a loooot fellas, I just got off the phone w/ a local vender and they reccomend kooks over QTPs as well. They are about $100 or so more, but if it saves me some clearance, whats another $100 on a set of SS LTs.
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Well, I was dead set on QTPs, then after reading the responses in this thread and talking to a few other folks, I am happy to say that I just purchased a set of Kooks Long Tube Headers :woot:




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